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April 7, 2016

Yitzi’s light

I needed some good ideas for a talk I was preparing on the parsha of the week, so I asked my friend Yitzi Hurwitz if he had anything.

Baseball, Jews and the American dream

In 1903, the Yiddish-language Forverts published a letter from a Russian immigrant, who’d written to say he didn’t understand the point of the game of baseball, the sport so beloved by all Americans.

Putting anti-Semitism on the radar at the University of California and beyond

Last week, the regents of the University of California unanimously approved a landmark “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance” containing the following language: “Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.”

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